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Now and then: Hand choice is influenced by recent action history

Action choices are influenced by recent past and predicted future action states. Here, we demonstrate that recent hand-choice history affects both current hand choices and response times to initiate actions. Participants reach to contact visible targets using one hand. Hand choice is biased in favou...

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Autores principales: Valyear, Kenneth F., Fitzpatrick, Aoife M., Dundon, Neil M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6424939/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30039397
http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13423-018-1510-1
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description Action choices are influenced by recent past and predicted future action states. Here, we demonstrate that recent hand-choice history affects both current hand choices and response times to initiate actions. Participants reach to contact visible targets using one hand. Hand choice is biased in favour of which hand was used recently, in particular, when the biomechanical costs of responding with either hand are similar, and repeated choices lead to reduced response times. These effects are also found to positively correlate. Participants who show strong effects of recent history on hand choice also tend to show strong effects of recent history on response times. The data are consistent with a computational efficiency interpretation whereby repeated action choices confer computational gains in the efficiency of underpinning processes. We discuss our results within the framework of this model, and with respect to balancing predicted gains and losses, and speculate about the possible underlying mechanisms in neural terms. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.3758/s13423-018-1510-1) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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spelling pubmed-64249392019-04-05 Now and then: Hand choice is influenced by recent action history Valyear, Kenneth F. Fitzpatrick, Aoife M. Dundon, Neil M. Psychon Bull Rev Brief Report Action choices are influenced by recent past and predicted future action states. Here, we demonstrate that recent hand-choice history affects both current hand choices and response times to initiate actions. Participants reach to contact visible targets using one hand. Hand choice is biased in favour of which hand was used recently, in particular, when the biomechanical costs of responding with either hand are similar, and repeated choices lead to reduced response times. These effects are also found to positively correlate. Participants who show strong effects of recent history on hand choice also tend to show strong effects of recent history on response times. The data are consistent with a computational efficiency interpretation whereby repeated action choices confer computational gains in the efficiency of underpinning processes. We discuss our results within the framework of this model, and with respect to balancing predicted gains and losses, and speculate about the possible underlying mechanisms in neural terms. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.3758/s13423-018-1510-1) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. Springer US 2018-07-23 2019 /pmc/articles/PMC6424939/ /pubmed/30039397 http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13423-018-1510-1 Text en © The Author(s) 2018 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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title_short Now and then: Hand choice is influenced by recent action history
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6424939/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30039397
http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13423-018-1510-1
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